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Margaret Thatcher Has Died
Slew of headlines out of the UK reporting that after suffering a stroke, the Iron Lady and former Prime Minister of the UK, Margaret Thatcher, has died. Rest in Peace.
Margaret Thatcher: October 13, 1925- April 8, 2013
Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died at 87 following a stroke, her spokesman has said.
Lord Bell said: "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning."
Baroness Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990.
She was the first woman to hold the post. Her family is expected to make a further statement later.
Baroness Thatcher, born Margaret Roberts, became the Conservative MP for Finchley, north London in 1959, retiring from the Commons in 1992.
Having been education secretary, she successfully challenged former prime minister Edward Heath for her party's leadership in 1975.
She won general elections in 1979, 1983 and 1987.
Most productive on the scene? The FT, which posted this 2,369 word obit 10 minutes after news of her death:
Thatcher: ‘Iron lady’ who changed Britain
She changed us all. We went from being a people who saw ourselves as eternally on the downward slide to a nation that was proud to be British again. On the world stage too, she made Britain count once more. She was a startling presence who brought a strong and controversial style to our diplomacy after years of Foreign Office blandness.
The words are those of Charles Powell, one of the closest aides of the “iron lady” during her time in power. Margaret Thatcher, who has died aged XX, not only revolutionised the social order in her own country but did much to reshape world politics amid the crumbling of the Soviet empire.
The developed world's first woman prime minister transformed a sclerotic UK economy, all but neutered the trade unions and endeavoured “to roll back the frontiers of the state” with a policy of offloading the great nationalised industries and selling council houses to their occupants. Abroad, she was the indomitable leader who won victory over Argentina in the Falklands war, who decided that Mikhail Gorbachev was a Soviet leader she could “do business with” and who inspired a respect for “Thatcherism” as a political philosophy that was never quite matched on the domestic front.
The flip side of her courage, toughness and radicalism was an arrogance, obstinacy and remoteness that became more marked the longer she clung to office. She centralised power to a degree not seen before in modern Britain. One result of the way she dominated government was her failure to heal the wounds opened up in her own Conservative party over her plans for a poll tax and her negative approach to the UK's role in Europe. Yet such was the force of her presence that what came after her was defined in terms of her absence.
Born in 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Margaret Hilda Roberts was the younger daughter of a corner shop grocer, Alfred Roberts, and his wife Beatrice. He was a self-made man, a Liberal alderman and a father whose tenets of integrity, hard work and self-reliance were strong influences throughout her career. His younger daughter's self-belief manifested itself early. Told by a teacher how lucky she was to have won a poetry reading contest, the 10-year-old Margaret replied: “I was not lucky. I deserved it.”
Though far from poor by the standards of a provincial town in the Depression, the Roberts family had neither hot running water nor an indoor lavatory. Yet she and her sister Muriel were well-dressed – their mother was a seamstress – and in a class-conscious era the ambitious Margaret took elocution lessons when she went to Kesteven and Grantham girls school. She read chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, then a huge achievement for a girl of her origins, and joined the university's Conservative Association, becoming its president in 1946.
After Oxford she worked as a research chemist but spent much time in Dartford, Kent, where she became party candidate. It was a hopeless seat for a Tory but at her adoption meeting she was offered a lift home by a wealthy businessman, a divorcé some 10 years her senior called Denis Thatcher. As he later said: “She stood for Dartford twice and lost twice, and the second time she cried on my shoulder I married her.” Denis was to give her unstinting support emotionally and financially throughout her career.
In 1953 the couple had twins, Carol and Mark. Denis's wealth meant they could afford a full-time nanny so motherhood did not stop her reading law, passing her Bar exams and in 1959 becoming MP for the London seat of Finchley.
She stood out from the beginning. Westminster's few women MPs tended to be older and unmarried whereas Thatcher, apart from her mastery of detail and her fluency as a speaker, was a young mother with an almost chocolate-box prettiness. She was made parliamentary secretary to the pensions minister and after the Conservatives' 1964 defeat the new party leader, Edward Heath, promoted her to his shadow cabinet even though he had been warned that “if we take her we'll never be able to get rid of her”. When Heath won the 1970 election she was given the cabinet post of education secretary. In the eyes of her contemporaries, however, she was still the token woman in the government.
She might have remained such, but for her performance as a minister and her ability to capitalise on her luck. As education minister she approved more comprehensive school schemes than anyone before or since, and she earned notoriety by ending free milk for pupils over eight. “Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher,” became the first of many derogatory slogans applied to her throughout her political life.
She formed an alliance with Sir Keith Joseph, a tortured intellectual of the right, who was appalled when Heath performed his great U-turn, back towards the corporate state and the imposition of controls over prices and incomes. By the time the Heath government fell in February 1974, Joseph's circle was increasingly influential. Heath lost a second election that October yet declined to stand down.
Had he done so, any one of a number of prominent male colleagues might have succeeded him. Probably Thatcher would not have made the attempt. But as the manoeuvring proceeded the men wrote themselves out. When Joseph refused to stand following an ill-judged speech about working-class inbreeding, she said she would do so “because somebody with our viewpoint has to stand”.
Airey Neave, an anti-Heath backbencher who was later murdered by the IRA, put his organising talents, and a list of supporters already garnered, at her disposal. She trounced Heath on the first ballot and clinched the leadership against a pile of second-rounders. As Opposition leader she and her team evolved a statement of principles entitled The Right Approach to the Economy. Its essence was monetary and fiscal prudence, the detachment of the trade unions from the management of national affairs and a reduction in the role of the state. It became a foundation document of Thatcherism.
Soon she had made her mark, not just at home but also on the world stage – much helped by an early speech attacking the Soviet Union, which led the Red Army to come up with the “iron lady” epithet.
Oppositions often depend on the incumbent government destroying itself. Labour obliged. The 1978-79 “winter of discontent” was marked by public sector strikes that left rubbish piled high in the streets and the dead unburied. Labour's electoral hopes were destroyed for a decade.
When Thatcher came to power in 1979 the British polity was in a mess. Inflation and unemployment were rising and the unions to many seemed out of control. Against all conventional wisdom, she took an axe to public spending. At one celebrated meeting she even demanded an extra £1bn cut in spite of warnings from those present that the country would fall apart.
Resisting calls for a softer line, she told the 1980 Tory conference: “To those waiting for the favourite media catchphrase ‘the U-turn', I have only one thing to say: U-turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.”
The economic medicine was hard to stomach. Unemployment rose above 3m, manufacturing output fell and the new prime minister's poll rating slid. Yet by 1983, inflation was down below 4 per cent from a peak of 22 per cent and the Conservatives' ratings were up again. Years later Lord Carrington, who became her foreign secretary, said: “Her finest hour really was with the economy and changing people's perceptions of what we ought to be doing.” It was, he said, greater even than her display of leadership in the Falklands war.
When Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982, Thatcher barely hesitated before sending a 25,000-strong military task force to reclaim the tiny colony. Victory and her unswerving purpose throughout the war cemented her image of determination at home and abroad. So too did her successful, table-thumping battles to reduce the UK's contribution to the European Community budget, insisting: “I want my money back.” Despite being described by François Mitterrand, then the president of France, as having “the lips of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula”, her European and global fan club multiplied. Her election victory in 1983, against a Labour party led by the elderly Michael Foot, seems in retrospect to have been almost too easy.
If Britain's military triumph in the South Atlantic was the most dramatic event of her first term, the vanquishing on a peacetime battlefield of the National Union of Mineworkers was the outstanding victory of her second. It was a bloody conflict with communities torn apart and pitched battles between miners and the police. Yet the NUM, previously regarded as invincible by any government, was eventually forced to back down.
On the economic front, Thatcher continued the battle to “roll back the frontiers of the state”. Privatisation began with National Freight and was extended to include steel, gas, telecommunications and water. State support for private industry was phased out. Local authority homes were sold at a discount to tenants, dramatically boosting home ownership though at the cost of an enduring void in housing provision for the poor.
These advances towards an increasingly liberal domestic economy, within a world marketplace where Britain was again respected, began to appear unstoppable. So did she. At the 1984 Tory conference in Brighton, five died and others were seriously injured when an IRA bomb ripped through the Grand Hotel just before 3am. The prime target survived. Next morning, condemning the attack as an attempt to cripple democracy, she told reporters : “This is the day I was not meant to see . . .”
It was her opposition to communism that helped bring about what she later regarded as her greatest achievement: the collapse of the Soviet empire. Her decade in Downing Street coincided with Ronald Reagan's eight years in the White House and the two became political soul mates. She supported Reagan as he brought the Russians to their knees by his willingness to outspend them on defence. At the same time she encouraged Mr Gorbachev's reform programme, recognising that it could help destroy collectivism from within. She won the hearts of much of the Soviet public in a barnstorming visit in 1987. Complete with a stunning new wardrobe, as one aide said she “came on like a modern Tsarina”. Barely two years later the Berlin Wall fell.
At home, however, her attitude to Europe was the cause of political setbacks. One of the biggest was the dramatic departure from her cabinet of Michael Heseltine, who walked out following a row over whether the Americans or Europeans should rescue the Westland helicopter company. On the surface she remained unruffled. She even recovered, although only temporarily, from the resignation of Nigel Lawson as chancellor of the exchequer.
Yet each new departure left her more isolated. Each was, in essence, a replay of the argument over the UK's place in Europe. As prime minister she had sanctioned the Single European Act, creating a genuine single market. Yet she hated any idea of a European superstate. In an outspoken speech at Bruges in 1988, she insisted: “We haven't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels.”
Her strident tone dismayed pro-Europeans in her cabinet. Thatcher was unrepentant and the wound festered. So too did that caused by her plans to introduce a regressive local government poll tax in the face of widescale opposition from Tories. By the time of her tenth anniversary as prime minister, it could be seen by others, but not by her, that she had been in office long enough. In 1989 a pro- European backbencher, Sir Anthony Meyer, stood against her and garnered enough votes to show there was real discontent in the parliamentary party.
The coup de grâce came the following year from Geoffrey Howe, her former chancellor and foreign secretary, who stunned the House of Commons by suggesting in his resignation speech that Thatcher's attitude was “like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find, the moment the first balls are bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain”.
A few days later Mr Heseltine, her long-time opponent, stood against her. A badly organised campaign, and an arrogance that saw her flying off to Paris on the night of the vote, brought about what many had believed unthinkable: she failed to win outright on the first ballot.
She had been proved mortal. Discontent over poll tax, her anti-European stance and her imperious style led her cabinet, one by one, to tell her that she should go.
The trauma of her unseating was to ravage Tory unity for years. One small consolation for her was that John Major, not Mr Heseltine, succeeded her.
Her final speech as prime minister in the Commons was a bravura performance as she defended her record, even at one point insisting: “I'm enjoying this!”
Although they stayed in power until ousted by Tony Blair and New Labour in 1997, the Tories were deeply scarred by the manner of her departure. It was to be 20 years before it entirely regained its confidence and momentum. Thatcher lived to see her party return to power under David Cameron in 2010 but she was too frail to attend the 85th birthday party in Number 10 that had been arranged for her.
She had never fully recovered from her abrupt and forced exit from frontline politics. In 1992 she went to the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven. For a while, on the international lecture circuit she received ecstatic receptions from foreign audiences, amazed that the British had ditched her. But it was not the same.
Her health started to deteriorate. In 2004 Sir Denis, made a hereditary baronet in his wife's resignation honours, died and she was left alone. She battled on, but her best moments were when she met old friends to talk about past triumphs and to dream of marching into Downing Street and making Britain great again.
Sue Cameron and Joe Rogaly
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher
"No! No! No!"
Murderous imperial cunt will rot in hell. Never forget how she subjected the Irish to tyranny in an era when she proclaimed liberty.
Happy day, Belfast!
The American way!
what a let down..i thought that was the honorable debbie "the joker" stabinow that bit the dust......ah, 1 less politician is still 1 less politician....
Thatcher predicted the Euro crisis years ago. And recognized that the Euro was a backdoor to a political union.
Must watch TV, right here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f8nYMCO2I
Just a pity we Brits do not have bragging rights, given that our sterling currency is down the pan too.
Ding, dong, the witch is dead!
Hey Horseman -
i must say i am shocked at the number of "red's" you received for calling this witch exactly waht she was...
im really beginning to wonder about who lurks here at the Hedge...
mother fuckers r sad to see thatcher go????
or is there sympathy in death after all the shit this brawd was responsible for???
fuck Margret Thatcher....RIH....rest in hell.................
I stand with you and Horse... she was an imperialist wench and a notorious shadow government tool.
She never said, "The problem with the MIC (one of my biggest employers) is that you eventually run out of people to drop bombs on."
exactly!
Are you an unemployed miner, a trade unionist, or just a regular idiot?
She turned the UK around.
They could use her now, instead of the clueless cardboard cutouts running the economy like blind demolition derby contestants.
I thought he was a blathering human Teletubby...
Someone actually voted for him over there? My condolences-
Total taxes and levies went up as a percentage in every year that she was PM. The trouble with Conservativism, is that you run out of chumps who think you are doing a smashing job.
the same way reagan turned us around?.......they are all...read my lips...self serving destructive assholes. were you are just a resource to be used for their benefit and your son and daughters....and the few exceptions will never be allowed to succeed....
You thick unattractive yob
You thick unattractive yob
It's just that she's quite moderate compared to today's conservatives. If we call her a murderous fascist, then what words do we have left to describe a Bush or an Obama?
Morons (leftards ?!?) seem to be rejoicing for whatever silly reasons.
Lack of character, a sign of our times...
the Grim Reaper came early.
Sorry. The Queen is still quite alive. At least Maggie served some half-productive, although politically charged purpose other than...wait...what exactly does the queen do?
I mean other than having decended from someone who received a scimitar from some watery tart in a strange aquatic ceremony?
Poll tax and European monitory integration divided her party. Poll tax was a terrible idea from which she never recovered. However, her insights into the Euro, while very controversial and heated, dividing BOTH the labour and Tory parties were 100% spot on.
The Irish...you mean the Catholic 'community' who were happy to cheer on every bombing against civilians. We have learnt our lesson now. Every time a bomb goes off in England, we should send another shipment of assault rifles to the Loyalist forces in N.I. Works every time.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
The Loyalists are freedom fighters.
Let them move back to the country to which they are loyal, England, a bastion of freedom.
The Celts originate from Cental Europe. Why should they have special rights that the Loyalists do not? ..and loyalty is to an independent Protestant Northern Ireland.
Does the same go for the Lowlander Scots who are descendants of the Irish invaders
previously ?
Where do you think those Ulsterman are from exactly ?The Lowlands.
Just wondered.
Irish history is just as murky as the ME.
Funny how many people ticked up the equivalence of freedom fighters and terrorists, yet were not so forgiving of the Loyalist cause. Double standards, and people with double standards have no standards.
This is nothing. Say the magic word Je...., I mean zionist, and it's like chumming the water. More nuts in this place than a San Franciso bath house.
Funny that Sinn Fein outlawed anti-semitism and was pro-immigration. At the same time they supplied the Palestinians with bomb making secrets, such as that of a fire bomb and mortar system the IRA pioneered. I guess Jerry Adams recognizes that Zionism is injurious to England, so promotes it. As I said higher up, they offer the wrecking of one's enemies, in return for the sacrifice of one's own people, and for many that is bait enough to join with their dark side. Compare the Mexican supremacists in the United States, and who they are sided with.
The crown is the creator & major claimant of 'zionism'. DYOH
The Crown was near bankrupt in 1776. The Rothschilds and the Sassons took it over from 1815 onwards.
http://archive.org/details/TheEmpireOftheCity
Hardly. Palestinians pay cash money to the IRA for their services. Consultancy is a great business if you can get it, and after 9-11, IRA funding from the US (primarily Boston and St. Paul, MN) dried up. Ultimately, the cutting off of funding is why the IRA ultimately came to the table.
Thats original
I know a few real Irish who will not miss her.
There's one thing everyone must admit about Maggie: she was an expert the game of power.
I only ever listen to the fake Irish Americans who prance around on St Patricks day in their green leotards. Surnames are Schwarzmahn and such.
Gotcher Guinness right here, fishface.
"we should send another shipment of assault rifles to the Loyalist forces in N.I. Works every time."
...who is we?
All the good people of the world.
lmao, go easy on yourself mate.
"Da bote a ya den?" (as the Irish might say)
only if they were very drunk and trying to communicate with a mongolian tribesman
IRA was funded by England...all controlled opposition
"she subjected the Irish to tyranny" - a slightly bit harsh, imho - I hate to write this, but the US view of the IRA did not help much in the conflict, either
meanwhile I miss in the article above a mention of how she "dragged" the London City into it's "Big Bang" - and so transformed a financial center that was built on private enterprise of stodgy, family-owned, boring, personal-relation-centered small firms into the US-corporate model that is now (making Wall Street and the London City Corporation two heads of the same beast)
also I miss any mention of the "Vodoo Economics" of which she and Ronnie Reagan were accused of (Reaganomics)
Family owned, would be English families...and after the 'transformation'...would be Jewish families.
The axis of Evil..........City of London, Wall St, Wash DC
from the Telegraph: the Americanisation of the City – above all, the dominant investment banking culture – has had some seriously corrosive and damaging effects. link: Was the Big Bag good for the City of London and Britain
Long-term relationship banking has been replaced by short-term transactional banking, often involving opportunistic financial engineering; the maximisation of profits, in pursuit of shareholder value, has meant an increasing reliance on intrinsically risky proprietary trading; and, for the traders, the annual lure of the seven-figure bonus has seen them systematically engaged in ludicrously one-way bets – one-way because they are not personally responsible for the losses (“other people’s money”), quite unlike the old City’s salutary partnership structure.
The City revolution of the 1980s was part of a wider revolution, which in its totality raised the fundamental philosophical dilemma for the Right that still remains unresolved: how to reconcile the instincts of conservatism (the past and present held in trust for the future, society seen as an organic whole imbued with reciprocal obligations) and those of free-market capitalism (unleashing nostalgia-free forces of creative destruction).
Earlier this year The Daily Telegraph ran an illuminating interview with Mervyn King, who lamented modern trends in financial services: too much emphasis on making money out of customers, too little on giving them a genuine service, and the malign impact of casino trading. It was an arresting interview because of the almost unprecedented spectacle of the governor of the Bank of England so explicitly attacking City values (or lack of them).
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personally this reminds me of how 1966 Hermann Abs, then Chairman of Deutsche Bank was complaining about the the "forceful and often hardly ethical" tactics of American banks operating in Germany
US-Style megacorp + bank = megabank, the hyperpriviledged institution (or species?) that dominates the world
Yes, But what does Nigel have to say about his beloved "city of London"............The ZH crowd loves to give Nigel oral.............
Obviously she and her handlers are behind this shit, we all are in today...
the Americanisation of the City
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Going for the telegraph, that is a telling admission.
The world has turned 'american'
Bye, bye the tale of the City of London, the Queen pulling the strings in the backstage etc
Your hermeneutic analysis is certainly not lacking in this and also the other thing.
One can only stand back in awe.
Still Killing: IRA Linked to FARC, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Taliban
Can someone here get hedgeless_horseman on Obamas kill list?
He is Obama
Some say Mossad/CIA ran the IRA, just as they ran Al-Queda. If there was peace in N.I, people would say, 'why is life still so shitty, we have had peace for some time.' and the answer would be 'We are still being fucked by the you-know-whos'
I did not know you were such a lover of empire and tyranny. Typical murderous comment from a Red Coat.
Shower of assholes. The North was run as an aparthite state ever since its inception. When the American civil rights movement sparked a similar movement in the North, a peaceful movement by Irish catholics, the Unionists embarked on a massive, murderous series of pogroms against catholics, facilitated by the RUC. When the British army were dispatched into Belfast they were welcomed by the Catholic community as saviours from the violence directed against them. The IRA were re-organised at this time to protect their own neighbourhoods. They continued in this way until the mid eighties, when they started a long slow decent into drug and arms running etc, and are now no more than a well run criminal organisation, like an Irish mafia. What they are now doesn't alter their history though, or the history of the murderous, genocidal long period of British occupation on this island. So go fuck yourselves and fuck that auld cunt Thatcher, she'll be welcomed in hell.
The Irish Free State was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church and Protestants were as welcome as Jews in a Mosque
Protestant versus Catholic was/is/will be media propaganda to cover and justify tyranny versus liberty.
Divide and rule; same as it ever was.
Dipshit, most of the great free state advocates were fucking protestants. Parnell etc.. A united free state that respected both protestant and catholic rights using a republican template was exactly what the British feared. Divide and conquer dickhead.
But where are the anarchist's 'rights'?
All this dithering over the rights of religious statists, none of whom give a squat about non-believers of government.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Denis Diderot
Oh, please--the IRA had about as much use for the Irish Free State as they did for the UVF and Stormont...
Ah, more of the OWS crowd...those whose piss and shit and don't clean it up, then want more from the very producers who provide, and who they are trying to destroy.
I did not know you were such a lover of Catholic empire and tyranny. Typical murderous comment from such a proud swastika wearing chap.
He's not alone or on his own. Be warned!
Still Killing: USA and UK Linked to FARC, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Taliban.
There, I fixed it for you...
As Mayor of the Munchkin City, In the County of the Land of Oz, I welcome you most regally.
But we've got to verify it legally, to see
To see?
If she
If she?
Is morally, ethic'lly
Spiritually, physically
Positively, absolutely
Undeniably and reliably Dead
As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her.
And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.
Then this is a day of Independence For all the Munchkins and their descendants
If any.
Yes, let the joyous news be spread The wicked Old Witch at last is dead!
"Murderous imperial cunt will rot in hell."- I doubt you have no idea what you are saying with such an ignorant comment. I would imagine hell to be worse than what the human mind can possibly conceive even with the most twisted mind. Be careful about your comments friend. I would not wish hell on anyone even those who I would think deserve it the most.
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Boy that is a tough one. The Kennedys loved the IRA and that non-taxpaying pro-EUSSR fraud Bono is IRish so I think Thatcher wins. The Irish finally get their shit together and their EVIL politicians sell their souls to the euro and EUSSR helped by cocks like Bono.
Thatcher had to be pretty good because the Rothschild BBC hated and continues to hate her.
You still watch BeeBee C ? Things are not always as they appear on the teeVee.
Thacher just took the cash from TPTB . Same as Helmut Kohl did .
The world died when that bitch got in the saddle . Trilateral Comission -
Nazis kicked the ass of the world - hippies thought that kicking NIxon in the butt means victory . The monsters took over. We will all die because the couple of necrophiles took the chainsaw and killed everyone in the sleep -
1978/79 .
Right, and Rupert Murdoch isn't wholly financed by liberal Marxists. Which would make his fake rightwing freak show a Hegelian feint, suckering millions of chickenheads. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the real patsy. He was set up by his own treacherous kind.
Shes only been in hell a few hours and already closed 3 furnaces!
+1
Pithy and apt!
Would that be the same Irish that blew up manchester shoppping centre full of mums & kids?
Delightful lepricorn freedom fighters!
When you untangle the web of british intelligence operatives embedded in all aspects of the troubles, always egging it on, causing it for hundreds of years, and doing these foul crimes themselves on civilians, you will find the origins of modern false flag ops. Ireland has always been rehearsal for the global tyranny we are all facing, everywhere.
The leprechauns were a British psyop to demean the ancient Irish cultural mythology, something the British have never had. You demonstrate the effectiveness of this tactic in your snipe. They had to destroy the culture to dominate the people. SOP, just as all our cultures are being wiped out today, by "public education", forced relocation, MSM propaganda, forced integration, and other manipulation. Think it through. Where 2 fight a 3rd wins. You and I have no reason to be enemies, we are set against each other by this dead bitch and the likes of George Bush, who are both responsible to some degree for all those bombings. You're busy hating the adversaries provided you, as planned. Wake Up.
Great site but always one fuckin idiot!
Two fascist cunts which destroyed a hope, joy, truth and the world - down.
German one more to go ....
I hope there is a hell.
R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher, one of Britain's greatest Prime MInisters. Thank you for rescuing this wonderful country from the grip of all those corrupt Trade Unions that wrecked our industries for so many years. Thank you for being strong and principalled on so many occasions. Thank you for all your strength and resolve when others would return this country back to the Dark Ages. As you finally rest, you will have to endure a tirade of internet Trolls who will, in their grotesque way try and harm your memory .... but they won't succeed. For after they have left their slug-trail of an existence far behind, the memory of what YOU achieved will live on for a thousand years.
I pictured you on your knees there. . .
NO NO NO.. I used to use Margeret Thatcher in a bikini to prevent pre-mature ejaculation..now if I have to think Dead Margeret Thatcher in a bikini rotting in the ground. I am sure that will create an Erectile Disfunction
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
R.I.P
may she (?) burn in hell
Thats narcissist double speak for "you cant achieve anything without fucking over the vulnerable".
The vulnerable are for fucking.
The Iron Lady has died.....and all we have to show for for it is socialist governments around the world.
RIP Margaret
Nobody except finance capitalists and other assorted parasites will mourn her passing. If she was still in power, we'd have even more bank bailouts.
Didnt you know Ross there are no capitalists left just creditists.
Sad day, last truly great leader.
Iron ? BS . WS-Banksters vaseline . Lady ? Since when r the cheap whores ladies ?
Ah yes, Thatcher the bankers best friend – the midwife for the fucking horror child we suffer today. The woman who tried to defend South African apartheid along with Dick Cheney. Yes RIP but let’s not colour her legacy other than total bullshit.
Look at what has become of South Africa. Was she wrong?
She's from the same tribe of Wabenzi . She was dead wrong all the time.
Stupid cunt destroyed Great Britain. The shithole which left ist desperate
loundry machine for WS fascists. Rehypotecated underwear of incotinent fascist necrophiles. There is a pile of nazi shit called David Rockefeller, still living and killing ....
The bitch was a stupid tool of the Golem .
Ah, yes...what is it about someone's passing that we forget the unethical/illogical/nonsensical bullshit that was dished to those around them during moments of weakness in their human form? I get impatient with obituaries and eulogies that make the once-living a candidate for sainthood.
Margaret Thatcher was a very complicated woman.
Are they going to privatise her funeral? Lets hope so.
All tenders to go via Boris apparently..and don't forget his cut
Heh, i was going to say that they could hire G4S to fuck up the security, but then i doubt there will be anyone there.
Apparently her grave will have the biggest dance floor in europe.
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
Oh good. Still time to be reincarnated as a helpless victim of one of her own policies completely stripped of her former dignity. So much more just than everlasting punishment for a human failing. I will not miss her.
It was that bitch who started to deregulate the banks to bring us where we are today. She won't be missed. It is interesting that all the papers in the UK have not allowed comment on her death, why do you think that is. The bitch ruined many a community and destroyed British manufacturing and engineering, all for the spivs in the City of London. I hope the devil has a red hot poker waiting for her.
Very embarrassing for the Tories as local elections unfold
Capitalism is supposed to work for the poor, It's Socialism that helps the rich, how else do you get to socialize the loses and keep the profits??
Raygun and Thatcher in large part started this whole mess by giving the Kleptocorpratists a huge tax break and there by passing on their portion of the bill to the
middle class and poor who then had to rely on credit to have a life and put their kids through school. ARGUE all you want but the FACTS SHOW MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR INCOMES HAVE BEEN DEAD IN THE WATER SINCE THATCHER AND RAYGUN.
If it were not for North Sea oil coming onstream at just the right moment - her husband was a director of BP, BTW - she would not have become so famous. Her governments increased spending dramatically. Forget all this stuff about her being economical with government spending. Quite the opposite.
"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth." - Margaret Thatcher
RIP
OTOH ~ you can print all the joobux you desire for yourself if you have the franchise...
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Edit: Aaaah yes, the predicted junks... Indicating, once again, the error in my comment... Don't worry people, the world is safe ~ NOBODY prints money for themselves... & NOBODY has a franchise on that... Counterfeitting is illegal... I should have known that [rolls eyes]...
You're a racist.
Find a hole, drop yourself into it, and die.
It would be addition by substraction for humanity.
Maybe you should hang out here........http://www.jpost.com/
You will fit in better......
So I guess the definition of a 'racist' is someone who observes that most of the problems that are discussed here on ZH daily flow directly or indirectly from the fractional reserve fiat money system [which evidently created itself], and is vocal about that observation...
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Moreover ~ the 'solution' to that problem is for people like myself, who speak out about the problem, to jump into a hole & drop dead...
OK good... I'm glad that's all solved...
"Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another Inferior,
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned,
then Everywhere is WAR."
-Bob
Defn of a racist = a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that a certain human race is superior to any or all others.
That's why you should drop yourself into a hole. We would all be better off without people like FS, than with them in it.
Judaism is a religion, not a race. Your race card is worn out.
Please explain how "antisemitism" fits into the religious card.
It doesn't. By this definition of yours Netenyahu is the worst antisemite alive, as he systematically exterminates Palestinians & threatens to invade Iran; and he's a Semite, so you can't blame any other races for his acts. Not to mention his and the above mentioned activities against non-Semites. Organized religion is all psyops perpetrated by some people against some other people, to exploit and to rationalize exploitation and hellacious attrocites against other human beings. Religion is a political weapon.
and pumped out of the north sea--know widely acknowledged as the a leading contributor to britain's rebirth. that said, a non-thatcherite government would not have been able to growth the industry so efficiently or quickly.
I guess she earned her pennies on her back, since she married her money.
You would have thought the National Debt might have been lower then when she left office
http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/334/uk-economy/uk-national-debt/
see 1979 to 1990
But if they do...watch the fuck out....1/2mV^2 is pretty nasty at terminal V.
"The problem with seeling all a conutries assests is you are soon left with fuck all"
Its a bargin April 16th 2013
Huh...?
Yes, sir! Can't you fools see the assault rifle?
The Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation in the UK will be dancing on her grave.
You mean the place where the pedophiles "allegedly" hang out? Is that who you mean?
Yes.....and I really wouldn't have worried about the 'allegedly' bit.
Thought that was PBS.
Birds of a feather no doubt.
they're pretty ubiquitous nowadays, the churches, the Boy Scouts, the sports programs, gov't., the internet - where don't the pedophiles hang?
more to the point, WHY don't the pedophiles hang??
http://www.american-buddha.com/franklincoverup.12.htm
As a parting shot they will be broadcasting the Cremation of Care around the clock.
Nope - she will be heralded as a "Great Woman", sort of like the US media did after Reagan died.
The only "conservatives" the media likes are dead ones, you know.
You Americans have a really distorted image of British politicians, you think Blair is great here in the UK he is reviled as a war criminal, he is hated. As for Thatcher she was the destroyer of worlds, single handedly destroyed the coal mining industry, engineering and manufacturing. The UK has 300 yrs of coal under the ground yet we import LNG from the Middle East. I guess Thatcher will be cremated if she is buried I wouldn't be at all surprised that her grave would eventually be desicrated. Parts of Northern England have never fully recovered from her policies.
most here have a RayGun image attached to Maggie's profile, don't know or care to know the truths of just how manipulated both countries were at the time, and continue to be now.
the "Big Bang" of the City of London heralded the intentions, and the puppetry carried out the deeds on behalf of those whose names are rarely acknowledged. . .
the Brits have a more clear vision as to what was wrought as the industries were shut down, the national assets sold off, the oil extracted and corporate profit'd, the massive cuts, the laws passed to protect the rentier class, the poll tax fought against. . . I could go on.
re-viled, just another head of state working against the peoples.
Maggie, Raygun, etc., faded icons of a failed status quo...
She had over ten years to subdue them, but she chose not to. Have you considered that is because she was happy with what they were producing? She was happy enough to create Channel 4, which was even more venimous, from its very inception. Channel 4 is what made me lose trust with the illusion.
So between us and glorious days of Capitalism (like it was in50's. 60's & few years of 70's) stands only bunch of Bolsheviks?
Would die to know which branch of communist party T. Blair, Bushes, L. Blankie, J Dimon, Corzine, to name the few, belong to?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNH9a0dgb74
Off topic.
Tylers, have you read this...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/icij-journalists-expose-mass-web-of-global-tax-evasion-a-892505.html
I too am a fan of off topic.
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06 April 2013
Real News: Investigation Finds Trillions Stashed in Global Tax Havens
Only the little people pay taxes. ... jca
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http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/
They will fry a few small fish to encourage a few other small fish to "repatriate".
Then they will turn to everyone else and say, "see, we busted 'the rich'", now pay those increased taxes, comrades.
And they will say unto thee, 'Sell out thy countrymen, and we will wreck England.'
And therein you shall betray.
governments are desperate for money, for any money that's idling anywhere (except for the money of the cronies of course).
the cost of holding a government together is skyrocketing and they have to find the funds. now!
they will look everywhere, they will steal deposits, they will tax the shit out of everyone, they will confiscate pension funds, they will do all they can.
stay off the radar and hide your shit. hide it well.
Mapping The Witch-Hunt Of The World's Offshore Bank Account Holders
yea but ...32 trillion !!
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have you read this one ...
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
An Introduction Programming Manual
Operations Research Technical Manual
TW-SW7905.1
http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/
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“…
The Artificial Womb
From the time a person leaves its mother’s womb, its every effort is directed towards
building, maintaining, and withdrawing into artificial wombs, various sorts of substitute
protective devices or shells.
The objective of these artificial wombs is to provide a stable environment for both
stable and unstable activity; to provide a shelter for the evolutionary processes of
growth and maturity – i.e., survival; to provide security for freedom and to provide
defensive protection for offensive activity.
This is equally true of both the general public and the elite. However, there is a
definite difference in the way each of these classes go about the solution of
problems.”
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and this bit ..
” ..Apparent Capital as “Paper” Inductor
In this structure, credit, presented as a pure element called “currency,” has the appearance of capital, but is in effect negative capital. Hence, it has the appearance of service, but is in fact, indebtedness or debt. It is therefore an economic inductance instead of an economic capacitance, and if balanced in no other way, will be balanced by the negation of population (war, genocide). The total goods and services represent real capital called the gross national product, and currency may be printed up to this level and still represent economic capacitance; but currency printed beyond this level is subtractive, represents the introduction of economic inductance, and constitutes notes of indebtedness.
War is therefore the balancing of the system by killing the true creditors (the public which we have taught to exchange true value for inflated currency) and falling back on whatever is left of the resources of nature and regeneration of those resources.
Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency gave him the power to rearrange the economic structure to his own advantage, to shift economic inductance to those economic positions which would encourage the greatest economic instability and oscillation.
The final key to economic control had to wait until there was sufficient data and high-speed computing equipment to keep close watch on the economic oscillations created by price shocking and excess paper energy credits – paper inductance/inflation.
” …
and it gets even worser …
Off topic .... we're missing Maggie !
Humble souls trying to escape the grasping clutches of socialism.... Hooray for tax evaders!
Humble souls trying to escape the grasping clutches of socialism.... Hooray for tax evaders!